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The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; Poets.org, the Academy’s popular website; American Poets, a biannual literary journal; and an annual series of poetry readings and special events. Since its founding, the Academy has awarded more money to poets than any other organization.

Cola Franzen

In 1923, Cola Franzen was born in Hart County, Georgia.

Franzen has published fifteen books of translations, among them poetry, fiction, and criticism by notable Spanish and Latin American authors. She has translated essays on photography as well as work by Cuban art critic and historian Gerardo Mosquera. Her recent publications include Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, a novel (University of Nebraska Press, 1998; and The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable, a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000), both by Argentinian-born writer Alicia Borinksy. Other authors whose work she translates regularly include Saúl Yurkievich (Argentinian), Juan Cameron (Chilean), and Antonio José Ponte (Cuban). Her other tranlations include Poems of Arab Andalusia (1989, reprinted 1995) and The Challenge of Comparative Literature (1993), by Claudio Guillén, son of the poet Jorge Guillén.